Remove YouTube Shorts & Playables

Toggle YouTube Shorts and Playables on or off — hide them from the sidebar and the home feed.

Take back control of your YouTube. Tired of endless Shorts hijacking your attention and Playables cluttering your home page? This extension cleanly removes both — so YouTube stays about the videos you actually came to watch. What it does 🚫 Hides Shorts everywhere — the home feed, sidebar menu, search results, Shorts shelves, and the "Shorts" filter chip. 🎮 Hides Playables — removes the Playables games section from your sidebar and home feed. 🎚️ Two simple toggles — turn Shorts and Playables blocking on or off independently, right from the popup. ⚡ Instant, no reload — changes apply live on the page the moment you flip a switch. 🪶 Lightweight & private — no accounts, no tracking, no data collection. It only runs on YouTube and does its job quietly in the background. Why install it Shorts are engineered to keep you scrolling, and Playables push games you never asked for. Instead of relying on willpower, just remove the temptation entirely. Turn YouTube back into a calm, distraction-free place for real content — and switch everything back anytime with a single click. Install now and enjoy a cleaner, more focused YouTube.